Activity of the month

Wednesday 31 Oct 2007, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

=DCM input 30/10= The following projects were invited for the hearings with the European Commission: * EGEE-III * DEISA2 * OMII-Europe-2 * EELA2 * ETICS-II * BalticGrid-II The EGEE-III hearing was held on the afternoon of Tuesday 23rd October in Brussels to answer the 9 questions we had received the week before. The team of 4 representatives from EGEE was: Bob Jones (project director), Ian Bird (head of SA1), Cal Loomis (head of NA4) and Aleksandar Belic (PMB chair). It was a very formal meeting that last only 1 hour. There were 20+ reviewers in the room as well as the EC representatives (Kyriakos Baxevanidis & Enric Mitjana). Following the presentation (see the slides attached) there were a number of further questions from the reviewers. These additional questions, which were on the same subjects as the original 9, had to be written down by the reviewers and passed to the chairman who then read them out. No dialog was possible with the reviewers and it was difficult to understand the meaning of some of the questions but we did answer all of them. Following the end of the questions we were escorted out of the building. Given the formality of the meeting it was difficult for us to assess the impact we made with the presentation and the answers to the additional questions. The next step is to receive the Evaluation Summary Report which we believe will arrive this week. Assuming EGEE-III is selected for funding, we should then receive a letter of invitation for negotiations during November.

08:00 → 08:20 Roberta Faggian Marque

DILIGENT WP3.1 * update on project's activity with Pedro * planning of short term activity WP4.2 * support organisation of event in Rome (EIS) * feedback to presentation and poster for EGEE07 RPLO * feedback and actions from EGEE07 * meetings * feedback to Web Task Force * feedback to communication questionnaire * PO retreat * meeting on JRU/NGI and RPs * meeting on IPRs EGE/RP * reporting * Pedro's contract renewal * contribution to PoW presentation * submission of staff positions descriptions for D4Science and EGE-RP section * pre-MAPS interview with Bob

08:20 → 08:40 Pedro Andrade

WP1.2 (0) WP1.7 (0) WP1.8 (7) - execution and monitoring of the deployment tests for integration build 0.3.0 - upgrade and maintenance of the deployment testing infrastructure running RF services - upgrade of deployment test tool to support secure deployment WP3.1 (4) - DILIGENT "data challenges" monitoring - conclusion of the data challenges by collecting the final results and updating the DC TWiki page - preparation of a press release about the data challenge - monitoring the of status of DILIGENT sites in EGEE PPS (certification activity on UNIBAS PPS site) - discussion with Dashboard people about publishing diligent jobs in PPS RGMA WP4.2 (3) - preparation of slides for OGF 21 about DILIGENT deployment test - participation in OGF 21 WP4.3 (0) Other (7) - participation in EGEE 07 conference (poster session, infrastructure presentation during DILIGENT session) - participation in the DILIGENT Information Space Event in Rome - preparation of a laptop running EGEE monitoring tool to send to the EC - change of contract: registration as CERN User (CNR contract) Holidays (2) - 10 October: full day - 22 October: full day Last Update - 31 Oct

08:40 → 09:00 Florida Estrella

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09:00 → 09:20 Dusan Vudragovic

Dusan Vudragovic October, 2007 Major work for SEE-GRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Grid-Operator-On-Duty for one week (October 1-8) https://helpdesk.see-grid.eu/supporter/index2.php?t=tupd&id=974 - New wiki page which describes simple httpd-SSL integration and DN-based authentication http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/Simple_httpd-SSL_integration_and_DN-based_authentication - Optimization of the RB/WMS Monitoring tool for usage outside of CERN http://lxb2007.cern.ch/monitoring/monitoring.html - RPM packages for the RB/WMS Monitoring tool http://glite.phy.bg.ac.yu/rbwmsmonitoring/ - Installation of the RB/WMS Monitoring tool at AEGIS01-PHY-SCL for SEE-GRID usage http://glite.phy.bg.ac.yu/rbwmsmon/monitoring.html - Documentation for the RB/WMS Monitoring tool http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/RB/WMS_Monitoring - SEE-GRID helpdesk activities One week of September I spent as Grid-Operator-On-Duty (https://helpdesk.see-grid.eu/supporter/index2.php?t=tupd&id=974). During this GOOD shift 7 new tickets were created and several tickets were updated and closed. Status of the tickets in SEE-GRID-2 Helpdesk after this week is given below Number of not closed tickets: 20 Number of open tickets: 6 Number of tickets in progress status: 12 Number of tickets in waiting for response status: 2 Number of unassigned tickets: 0 During the month I wrote wiki page which describes Apache-SSL integration and DN-based authentication (http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/Simple_httpd-SSL_integration_and_DN-based_authentication) for the section Web Authentication and Authorization of the SEE-GRID Gridification Guide (http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/SG_Gridification_Guide). It can be very useful to those who want to create web applications under Apache's httpd server which will be used by different users who should have different access permissions to various structural parts of the application. This month I reorganized Yvan Calas’ RB/WMS Monitoring tool (http://lxb2007.cern.ch/monitoring/monitoring.html). I optimized the tool for outside for usage from outside of CERN and setup configuration files. RPMs are created and they are available at http://glite.phy.bg.ac.yu/rbwmsmonitoring/. After this I installed tool at AEGIS01-PHY-SCL site (http://glite.phy.bg.ac.yu/rbwmsmon/monitoring.html) for SEE-GRID usage and wrote tool’s documentation and installation guide at SEE-GRID wiki (http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/RB/WMS_Monitoring). Major work for GD-OPS; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM supporter for one week (October 15-22) - ROC on Duty for one week (October 1-8) - List of tickets that should be discussed at October 3 Morning meeting http://egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/ROC_CERN/CERN-PROD_tickets/CERN-tickets-20071003.xls I spend one week of October as SAM supporter (October 15-22) (https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/SamSupportRota) and one week more as CERN ROC operator. As a part of this activity I prepared the list of tickets that should be discussed at Morning meetings on October 3 (http://egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/ROC_CERN/CERN-PROD_tickets/CERN-tickets-20071003.xls). Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- - Morning meeting (October 3) - SAM weekly meetings - IT-GD-OPS weekly meetings - CERN ROC meeting (October 23) Beside weekly SAM and IT-GS-OPS meetings I attended CERN ROC meeting on October 23 and Morning meetings on October 3. Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- - SEE-GRID PSC meeting, November 21-22, Sarajevo Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ No holidays TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3 A3.1 100% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 34 of sites in project 12 of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 1153 of cpus 24TB total SE

09:20 → 09:40 Rolandas Naujikas

Rolandas Naujikas 10, 2007 Major work for BalticGrid; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- SAM/FCR maintenance. biit VO added to VU-MIF-LCG2 cluster at grid6. VU-MIF-LCG2 quattor upgrade to 1.3. Major work for CERN; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upgrades in CERN_PPS. Managing CERN's WMS/RBs. Major issues arising -------------------- VGTU-gLite still have problems. Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- None Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- None Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ None TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ NA2: 0% NA3: 0% SA1: Task2: Core central grid services: 20% Task5: User support system: 40% Task7: Logging and accounting system: 10% Task8: Validation and certification of production sites: 30% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 26 sites in project 14 sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 1271 cpus (average) 49TB of SE

09:40 → 10:00 Domenico Vicinanza

Domenico Vicinanza October, 2007 Major work for EUMEDGRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Server maintainance: -- Oracle XE database maintainance: successfully restored tables and criticality level - Updated SAM CA test on the SAM client, to be compatible to the latest CA release 1.17 - Reviewed WP2 questionnaire (draft hosted at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s_pass.aspx?sm=4wE3j8pNjyd2b7gefYvU7Q%3d%3d) - WP3 (Infrastructure and support) activities: o following up troubleshooting with 4 CEs failing job submission tests o following up troubleshooting with 1 SE failing lcg copy-and-register, copy and delete tests - WP4 (Applications) activities: o pilot installation of the libasound2-dev libraries for new applications (paleoacoustic) - Support to site administrators Major work for GD-OPS; GD-ITR; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Test Documentation: -- Work on the Savannah bug [#30079] "Documentation fo (LHC) VO-specific tests" completed: created a common framework to collect documentation coming from LHC VOs and integration within the current SAM Docs frameworks (i.e. creation of a proper entry in the http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs portal) -- Working at the first release of the VO-specific tests documentation. A first template document, containing the LHCb tests with inline comments, has been delivered. For each VO test-package there will be a website containing the browsable commented scripts (http://grid.cyfronet.pl/LHCb-sam-doc/) and a chapter in the " SAM VO-Specific Tests Documentation" manual available here: http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/htmldocs/MANVOTestsDoc/ (HTML), http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/MANVOTestsDoc.pdf (PDF) - SAM Integration of new tests: -- Following up the integration of Nikhef PoC tests (PoC is a software distribution of scientific oriented software, built for a bunch of dutch VOs in various science fields under the 'Virtual Lab for e-Science' umbrella) Tests results currently publishing result on the validation database: https://lxn1181.cern.ch:8443/sam-val/sam.py) - SAM Support (GGUS) - CERN ROC On duty (GGUS and Remedy support): From October 8th to 12th. Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - SAM Team and IT-GD-OPS weekly meetings - CERN ROC Meetings Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------ Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 day TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.2 and 3.3 70% WP4/A4.2 and 4.3 30% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project: 12 (10 Countries, 8 Mediterranean Countries) # of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure: 5 # of CPUs: 1640 (total number, free 477 on Nov. 1st) total SE: 9 total CE: 14 total gCE: 0 (it has been deprecated) total RB: 5 total gRB: 3 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 0 ************************************************************

10:00 → 11:00 Konstantin Skaburskas

Konstantin Skaburskas October, 2007 Major work for Health-e-Child; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- WP5/T5.2 25% (1-9 M) (13-30 M) - Started to populate the following Wikis: * technical information and work progress of WP5 and WP14 http://hec-maat-server1.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/HeCWPs * intended for end users: admins/developers/user http://hec-maat-server1.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/HeCInfra - Quaterly report for HeC WP5 submitted to WP5 leader WP5/T5.6 20% (13-30 M) - Test of certification version of VOMS server for roll-out on SLC4. Experiments with data from HeC VOMS. Problems with schema upgrade for "too old" schema version of HeC VOMS server. Certification teem contacted. Looking for intermediate upgrade scripts. WP5/T5.7 20% (18-30 M) - Started with test installation of Quattor. WP5/T5.8 00% (18-30 M) - WP5/T5.9 00% (13-30 M) - WP14/T14.1 00% (13-30 M) - WP14/T14.2 35% (13-30 M) - UoA deployment is on the way. Helping them with inst/conf. Current status - four VMs are up&running, host certs requested, glite-WN/Torque_client installed. WP14/T14.5 00% (18-30 M) - WP14/T14.6 00% (18-30 M) - WP14/T14.7 00% (18-30 M) - Major work for "GD-OPS; GD-ITR"; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- OPS: - GMOD backup (01-08 Oct. 07) - GMOD (22-29 Oct. 07) - PPS site upgrades/administration - became responsible for new gLite service type - glite-FTM (inst/conf'ed, feedback provided to ITR team) SAM: - bugs fixed #28465, #27886, #28978 - working on #30513, #24685 Major issues arising -------------------- - Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- - Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- - Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ * days 1 *TimeSheet for the month *22* ------------------------------------------------------------ WP5/T5.1 --% (1-6 M) DoWI WP5/T5.2 25% (1-9 M) (13-30 M) WP5/T5.3 --% (7-12 M) DoWI WP5/T5.4 --% (10-15 M) DoWI WP5/T5.5 --% (16-18 M) DoWI WP5/T5.6 20% (13-30 M) WP5/T5.7 20% (18-30 M) WP5/T5.8 00% (18-30 M) WP5/T5.9 00% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.1 00% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.2 35% (13-30 M) WP14/T14.3 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.4 --% (13-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.5 00% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.6 00% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.7 00% (18-30 M) WP14/T14.8 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0% WP14/T14.9 --% (18-30 M) CERN 0%

11:00 → 11:20 Alexandre Duarte

Alexandre Duarte October, 2007 Major work for EELA; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * SAM Maintenance * EELA Grid Operation * Writing the paper for the 3rd EELA Conference( four abstracts accepted) * Helped with the preparation of the answers for the EELA 2 Hearing * Working on the Certification of the UFRJ site. Major work for GD-OPS major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * ROC on Duty ( from the 8th to the 12th and from the 22nd to the 26th of October) * Fixed several bugs in the SAM BDII2Oracle module Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Weekly SAM Team Meetings and Section Meetings EGEE WLCG-OSG-EGEE Operations Meetings 8th and 22nd of October) Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd EELA Conference in Catania (3rd to the 5th of December) Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 days TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP2/T2.1 20% WP2/T2.3.1 20% WP2/T2.3.2 20% Wp4/T4.2: 40% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ # of sites in project - 16 # of cpus - 1678 total SE 62.5 TB ************************************************************

11:20 → 11:40 Lanxin Ma

Lanxin Ma October. 2007 Major work for EUchinaGrid; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Submitted an abstract to ELLA 3rd conference (Agreed with Florida to submit a presentation to the EELA conference rather than the EUChinaGrid conference in Poland) 2. EUChina operation support 3. Submitted and processed tickets according to the SAM test results 4. Checked slides related with SAM for Enrico for EUChinaGrid ROC-on-duty school 5. EUChinaGrid infrastructure troubshooting and grid control 6. Investigating the reason of SAM test submission failures Investigating SAM update problem SAM server was down because Oracle DB hardware problem, contacted the admin and help her re-setup SAM server and provide her SAM documentatin. 7. Organized the attendance of officials from Chinese funding agencies to LHC RRB meeting, organized them to meet CERN IT directors and visited CERN Computing center Major work for ; major changes in workplan --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. VOMRS maintenance & troubleshooting in LCG production server 2. VOMRS user support, Process user's requests, problems & tickets(GGUS) 3. PPS pre-test glite3.1 update07. installed and configured a new pps bdii server glite-BDII3.1 with SLC4. submited a bug #30486 and commented in patch #1385. This new BDII server replaces the old server in PPS. 4. Re-installed roc-wms server with the latest version of pps-wmslb 5. Fixed and reported a yaim bug(#30200) in glite-UI3.1(lxb2086.cern.ch) 6. VOMRS testing because of oracle security patch 7. VOMS/VOMRS workshop(22nd-26th Oct.) http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=18764 8. Wrote VOMRS FAQ "VOMRS client installation and user guide" http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/VOMRS_client_installation_and_user_guide 9. Participated EMT meeting discussing the test status of vomrs/voms 10. PPS-BDII manage and upgrades in CERN_PPS weekly. 11. roc-wms, UI, roc-bdii mantaince and upgrade 12. ROC SAM test mantaince Major issues arising -------------------- EUChinaGrid SAM server still does not work. I will help the admin to solve the problem. Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- IT-GD-OPS weekly meeting EMT meeting voms/vomrs workshop Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 days TimeSheet for the month ------------------------------------------------------------ WP3/A3.3 100% Infrastructure status ------------------------------------------------------------ 11 of sites in project 11 of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure 2238 of total cpus (Gstat) total SE: 12 total CE: 10 total RB: 6 total FTS: 0 total LFC: 1 total Local LFC: 1 total GridICE: 11 ************************************************************

11:40 → 12:00 Marc Ozonne

ICEAGE * ICEAGE Meeting project in Budapest 24-26 October 2007 Presentation of the CSC07 Presentation of the Grid-in-box project * Attend the EGEE07 Conference 1-5 October * Writing an article about "Trainers' certification". * 1 day off